I think the motivation behind the list is to point out how this subject seems to be in heavy rotation in the media. EVERY city and EVERY country in the world wants thriving and powerful economic development, and now they all have the means to disrupt with their own tech sector. This is going to be rinsed and repeated all over the world for the next 50 years, nanotech here, space travel there, machine learning, robotics, medicine, you name it.
Now it's not like we all weren't competing before, but now it seems the playing field is getting more and more level. Which can mean nothing but good for the average person. Right?
Overall, I think this is a really impressive list. It seems like a varied mix, and given criticism from a couple years back that Silicon Valley isn't focusing on "hard" stuff, was cool to see lots of awesome tech (auto-piloting planes! robot vegetable pickers!)
I believe we are in the early phase of the adoption curve for #2 replace email- slack, #4 internet drama- netflix, hbo etc, #5 next steve jobs- elon musk.
Good list. i would agree with you that those 5 items are what to look out for in the near future (the web, Bitcoin, drones and 3D-printers). I would probably add wearable computing to the list as well.
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